Verboticisms

Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: app er flat ick

Sentence: Stan hated when Mary's responses were all aperflattic, to the point he never gave her any more compliments.

Etymology: from apathy and from flattery to be apparently apathetic about flattery

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Created by: AllisonLittell

Pronunciation: Ob-li-ment

Sentence: Megan was obliment to Lauren because Lauren threw Megan off her horse.

Etymology: Ob-Against Compliment- To say something nice to someone.

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Created by: pandafever

Pronunciation: com-pla-ment-acitus

Sentence: Maggie's complamenticitus was out of control on her wedding day.

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Created by: omista

Pronunciation: ad-mra-hen-siv

Sentence: Bing a shy guy he was always admirahensve any time a woman gave him attention.

Etymology: admiration + apprehensive

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Created by: SydneyNFox

Pronunciation: SWER-V-U-LEH-J-IZE

Sentence: When i was elected prom Queen, I found it difficult to swerveulogize peoples comments.

Etymology: Swerve: Old english swerorfan- to turn away eulogize: Greek eulogia- praise; good or fine language

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /tri-'byük/

Sentence: Words may never hurt him, but with all his tribuking, words couldn't really help him either.

Etymology: From tribute + rebuke

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COMMENTS:

nice! - wordmeister, 2007-01-19: 10:57:00

Thanks. - ErWenn, 2007-01-21: 00:34:00

Oh, I like that one! Very catchy, rolls off the tongue JUST right.:) - PolishedAmethyst, 2007-01-21: 03:19:00

Thanks to you too, PA. - ErWenn, 2007-01-21: 10:56:00

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: FLA-tur-ta-tur

Sentence: In a vain attempt to appear modest, Sue would always flattertatter any morsel of flattery sent her way; in reality, we all knew she was a compliment whore, looking to be reflatterized. (In the interest of a smaller sentence, I reverbotomized flattery.)

Etymology: flatter, tatter (to tear to shreds)

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COMMENTS:

Good reverb! - wordmeister, 2007-01-19: 10:04:00

I was briefly proud of it, until I discovered I was a vocabuloser. - purpleartichokes, 2007-01-19: 18:05:00

Tee hee!! - Sed8ed, 2007-01-19: 23:59:00

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Created by: whatname

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: re koodo dee ayt

Sentence: Although she took pains to look gorgeous, Shyanne could only rekudodiate the kind words she heard. Sadly, she did not have enough self-esteem to believe them.

Etymology: repudiate (reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust) & Kudo (an expression of approval and commendation)

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Created by: ubgrud

Pronunciation: grunt-full

Sentence: She was very gruntful when I complimented her on her blouse.

Etymology: grunt+grateful

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